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The news that Kmart will open 24 hours, 7 days a week, in an expanded Eaton mall has created a stir in the Greater Bunbury area. According to property owners Citygate, the news has been greeted positively by current tenants....

The Western Australian apple industry is following the table grape industry's lead by calling for the introduction of mandatory maturity standards, to ensure a consistent flow of high quality fruit to consumers....

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While the nation has been preoccupied with the labelling of imported food in the past few weeks, health experts have criticised Australia's decision not to label trans fats in food. Trans fats are linked to heart disease and cancer and have been all but banned in a number of European countries but ...

Almost all of us have a mobile phone or know someone who does. Do you think that mobile phone is produced in the one place? That all the bits and pieces that make it what it is come from the same factory? Well they dont, the components can come from many different countries and then be put together in ...

The Reserve Bank is expected to downgrade its forecasts for growth when it releases its latest snapshot of the economy today. Slower growth means the Budget deficit is at risk of another blowout again come May - making it unlikely the Government will achieve its goal of a return to surplus by 2018. ...

The Reserve Bank may have less of a reason to cut interest rates next week after the latest consumer inflation numbers came out. Prices at the shops rose just point two of a percent in the last few months of 2014 according to the Bureau of Statistics. That's as the plunge in global oil prices saw petrol ...